Art Decade

Happy New Year, party people. I am working on a couple of projects that will appear on this blog but won't be completed for another coup...

Shirley Collins & Davy Graham - Dearest Dear

Philip Catherine - Nairam The triumphant return of Philip Catherine to these pages, and the triumphant return of "Nairam": I p...

Robert Fripp - Silent Night

The Phantom Band - Rolling The triumphant return of Jaki Liebezeit (="Love Time"?), that supernaturally good drummer, to these ...

David Stoughton - The Summer Had No Breeze A lifetime doesn't last And too much has already passed It takes a while to realize that...

Marcos Valle - Deixa o Mundo E o Sol Entrar "A door at the end of a hallway... I come nearer... I must open it... It can't be......

Justine and the Victorian Punks - Beautiful Dreamer Slept on this when DFA reissued it in 2010, and when Thunderbals posted it in 2008,...

Angel Maimone Entreprise - Question Piège Your guess is as good as mine on this one.

Michel Pagliaro - Lovin' You Ain't Easy Some Sing, Some Dance Recorded at Apple Studios, London. Love the labyrinthine bridge...

Gabriel Fauré - In Paradisum (from Requiem, op. 48)

Shiny Two Shiny - Waiting For Us (12" mix) This was just reissued on Captured Tracks (thanks!), so I took the link down. Let's ...

Tia Blake And Her Folk-Group - Turtle Dove

Hamilton Bohannon - Keep On Dancin' Featuring Fernando Saunders on bass. Does he play any two-bar unit exactly the same, or is each o...

Paul McCartney - Rode All Night Saturday Night Special

Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir: Ever Since Nobody Knows Now that my son is in full-day pre-K I had a minute to wo...

Noël Akchoté - Carlo Gesualdo: "Moro, lasso, al moi duolo" "So a twenty-first century guitarist recorded all of Gesualdo...

Miaow - Belle Vue Moments of harmelodic interest at 1:45 and ff. Mining a sophisto-amateur seam similar as this .

Carmen - Schlaraffenland Die Doraus & Die Marinas - Tulpen Und Narzissen In a pre-ANGST frenzy, a trawl through the  bumrocks 2004 ...

Kraftwerk - Taschenrechner The lads from Kraftwerk released four versions of this in four languages: English, German, Japanese, French. I...

EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY MEGAPOST! Thelonious Monk -  Thelonious (recorded "live" in Paris, December 1969) Ye Olde Blog turns 8 tod...

John Cale - Days Of Steam For similar educational filmstrip soundtrack styles, refer back to this one (listen here ).

Plaza Hotel - Bewegliche Ziele

EVENT INVITE! Dear party people, please join me on Thursday, November 6th, at the Walter Reade Theater (Lincoln Center), for a special scr...

Captain Sensible - Happy Talk Thanks to extended family member Greg Condon for alerting me to this one (indirectly) in this great mix . H...

Earle Mankey - Mau Mau At post #1776, we come to Earle Mankey. You'd be forgiven for assuming this was a cover of this . (It's no...

The 39 Clocks - DNS Thanks ever so much to the redoubtable Anonymous 2 for hipping me to this one in this classic thread . It took just 2...

Niagara - Sangandongo (excerpt) Another great hi-hat to ride cymbal climate change at the 4:19 mark. For other such moments, see: here...

Yes - Sound Chaser Every album should begin like this, with the band members quietly discussing aesthetic matters in a lovely park somewh...

Alex Caso - If I Can't Have You Yet another brilliant peel-off from Duane. And once again the orphic artistry of Barry, Robin, and M...

The Barron Knights - You're All I Need There's something nice and surprising about that octave leap at 0:34. Thanks to  Wombletun...

J.S. Bach - Concerto in D minor after Alessandro Marcello, BWV 974, II: Adagio Performed by Glenn Gould. Recorded at Eaton's Auditori...

Ghédalia Tazartès - Tazartès' Transports (second excerpt) You'd have to travel all the way back to this one to hear more churchb...

Betty and Karen - I'm Not Satisfied

Léonie - Mozart Another one from the hitmaking duo of Léonie and J.C. Vannier. And yes, this sounds like side two of Abbey Road, but I...

Véronique Sanson - Dis Lui (De Revenir) a slight return for Véronique.

Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan - My Lord What a Morning Good Lord.

Dick Raaijmakers - Ballad 'Erlkönig' I find this piece uplifting, but it sounds like Dick was maybe on a little bit of a bummer w...

Betty Lavette - Never My Love The triumphant  return of Betty Lavette to these pages.

Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads

Brigitte Fontaine - Areski Belkacem - Baby Boum-Boum

The Selectors - Pleading For Your Love

Bobby Rush - Mary Jane

Terry Melcher - High Rollers Who is Sonny Tusk?

John Klemmer - Brazilia (Brasilia) Hot sun and warm breezy evenings--relaxed lazy days with smooth syncopated rhythms. ...

Léonie - En Alabama Apparently this is how crazy things can get when J.C. Vannier writes a tune instead of just arranging one. Featuring ...

Orbidöig - Nocturnal Operations If this is midsummer, it must be time for hymns . Perhaps this song inspired a mania for churchbells wh...

The Mighty Clouds Of Joy - Time (extended) So I'm kicking back on Fire Island a few weeks ago and celebrating the birth of disco (sor...

Inner Space -  I'm Hiding My Nightingale  

Marie France - Daisy